The Daily Howler, March 21, 2005

BUNGLING RATHER (PART 6)! “I haven’t discussed the insider press,” Josh said. Our analysts responded: “We’ve noticed!”

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MONDAY, MARCH 21, 2005

MILLION-DOLLAR LIGHTWEIGHT: The press corps’ alleged bias is constantly flogged. But often, it’s harder for people to comprehend how dumb the corps really is. How big a lightweight is the Post’s Dana Milbank? In Sunday’s Outlook section, Milbank confesses to what his headline calls a “bias for mainstream news.” The scribe’s worry? “Partisans on the left and right have formed cottage industries devoted to discrediting what they dismissively call the ‘mainstream media,’” he writes. “[T]he consequences are ominous for the country,” the troubled scribe quickly explains: